Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/09/07 17:42

SpaceGirl wrote:
> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>
>> You keep saying this, talk is cheap. If the content is basically text
>> using Flash appears not to add value but lend to complications in
>> bandwidth (maybe not the initial download but the bottom line time to
>> display) and versatility for user accessibility unless carefully
>> engineered by the flash designer (although I have jet to witness an
>> example of this too)
>
> You are ignoring the user experience. This can be as important as your
> content, if not MORE important, depending on the context.

It ain't an experience (or at least a good one) if one cannot access it!

Adobe's own example...

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashpaper/examples/
Macromedia - FlashPaper 2 : Examples

1) Opera's screen reader gives me a "Sorry I Do Not Understand" when
selecting this "FlashPaper" for reading so I can only assume a screen
reader will also fail...have to have Chad check it I think he has Jaws...

2) The lousy, 2.5kb of text took a noticeable time to load, yes I know I
am slow with dialup, but why would I wish to add the overhead? Just to
preserve the 3 columns?

3) Relates to #2. The damn page is just like an image of a piece of
paper. That's the problem the web is not paper. Zoom is not equal to
increasing the font. If the view port is small you find yourself
up-down-right-left jocking around a peep hole.

4) In the zooming process I do not see the text as clearly as the
regular text of the surrounding HTML. I appears like a bit mapped image
of a page....

>
> Also, once again, Flash IS ACCESSIBLE. It can be screen read, it
> supports CSS and tagging (as in alternative), plus it's a presentational
> layer. You may as well accuse MPEG movies, or JPEG images of being
> inaccessible. It's all about HOW it's used.
>

Only if you build one of those nasty Adobe GoLive image slice sites! (In
all fairness GoLive is not the only "WebEditor" to create such sites,
but when you stumble upon one, peeking at the source usually reveals the
culprit.

> Look up FlashPaper, you may be surprised.
>


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Take care,

Jonathan
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